Paul Klee Quotes
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One day I will lie nowhere with an angel at my side.
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See with one eye, feel with the other.
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The artist of today is more than an improved camera, he is more complex, richer, and wider. He is a creature on the earth and a creature within the whole, that is, a creature on a star among stars.
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All the things an artist must be: poet, explorer of nature, philosopher!
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The way to form transcends its own destination, goes beyond the end of the way itself.
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Genius is the error in the system.
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He has found his style, when he cannot do otherwise.
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A line is a dot that went for a walk.
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My hand is entirely the implement of a distant sphere. It is not my head that functions but something else, something higher, something somewhere remote. I must have great friends there, dark as well as bright. They are all very kind to me.
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Art does not reflect what is seen, rather it makes the hidden visible.
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The more horrifying the world becomes, the more art becomes abstract.
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When looking at any significant work of art, remember that a more significant one probably has had to be sacrificed.
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Spatial art does not begin with a poetic mood or idea, but with construction of one or more figures, with the harmonizing of several colors and tones, or with the devaluation of spatial relationships and so on.
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My mirror probes down to the heart. I write words on the forehead and around the corners of the mouth. My human faces are truer than the real ones.
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In earlier days, even as a child, the beauty of landscapes was quite clear to me. A background for the soul's moods. Now dangerous moments occur when Nature tries to devour me; at such times I am annihilated, but at peace. This would be fine for old people but I... I am my life's debtor, for I have given promises.
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Nature is garrulous to the point of confusion, let the artist be truly taciturn.
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All is well with me. The rain doesn't reach me, my room is well heated, what more can one ask for? There's no shortage of work, either.
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The painter should not paint what he sees, but what will be seen.
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Nature can afford to be prodigal in everything, the artist must be frugal down to the last detail. Nature is garrulous to the point of confusion, let the artist be truly taciturn.
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Gradually compositions make an appearance again. Political - satirical - conceits expressed in one figure or a few.
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Beauty is as relative as light and dark. Thus, there exists no beautiful woman, none at all, because you are never certain that a still far more beautiful woman will not appear and completely shame the supposed beauty of the first.
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Color has got me. I no longer need to chase after it. It has got me for ever. I know it. That is the meaning of this happy hour.
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What my art probably lacks is a kind of passionate humanity... There is no sensuous relationship, not even the noblest, between myself and the many.
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A tendency toward the abstract is inherent in linear expression: graphic imagery being confined to outlines has a fairy-like quality and at the same time can achieve great precision.